The Web page for this meeting now contains links to all presentations. Links in the summary report below have also been updated. http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html
Steve Hitchcock At 13:13 22/02/04 +0000, Stevan Harnad wrote:
Here is a very brief summary of the contributions 22 to the International Meeting on National Policies on Open Access (OA) Provision for University Research Output (February 19 2004, Southampton University, Southampton UK) http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html (Other attendees are also invited to post their summaries!) (1) Restrictive access policies cut readership of electronic research journal articles by a factor of two, Michael J. Kurtz, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/kurtz.pdf (Poster) This study confirmed and extended the Lawrence Effect (Nature 2001) which shows how much research impact is lost if articles are not made OA: Readership is cut in half (and 17 reads generates 1 cite, on average, in astrophysics). (2) The Effect of Open Access on citation impact, Tim Brody, Intelligence Agents Multimedia (IAM) Group, University of Southampton Services for Open Access literature at the University of Southampton, Tim Brody, IAM Group, University of Southampton (Poster)
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/brody-impact.pdf
This study further confirmed and extended the Lawrence Effect (Nature 2001) for several areas of Physics, including strong correlations between downloads("reads") and subsequent citations. (3) Introduction and Open Access primer, Steve Hitchcock, Southampton University
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/hitchcock-intro.ppt
Explained the focus of the meeting: Developing national and institutional Open Access Provision policies (4) Welcome, Adam Wheeler, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Southampton University History of scholarly/scientific communication and publication up to the Open Access era. (5) Open Archive Initiatives and research infrastructure in Australia, John Shipp, University of Sydney, and Colin Steele, Australian National University
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/steele-oz.ppt
Summary of the very active national promotion of OA in Australia, including institutional self-archiving of articles as well as monographs. (6) Impact of OA on science in developing countries (including a report on the recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) meeting), Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/kirsop-dc.ppt
Summary of OA developments in Developing Countries, describing how OA helps both in providing access to articles from Developed countries and in providing access to (and hence visibility and impact for) articles from Developing countries. Stressed the need for institutional self-archiving policies worldwide. (7) DAREnet: access to Dutch scientific results, Leo Waaijers, SURF/DARE
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/waaijers-dare.ppt
Summary of very active DARE programme in the Netherlands: Institutional self-archiving and many other OA-related projects. (8) Achieving open access to UK research: the work of the Joint Information Systems Committee, Fred Friend, University College London
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/friend-jisc.ppt
Summary of JISC projects supporting OA. (9) OA: A Canadian update, Tim Mark, Canadian Association of Research Libraries
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/mark-carl-ir.doc
Canadian Library initiatives. (10) Open Access: The French Approach, Francis Andre, CNRS/INIST [document, author unable to present on the day]
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/OA_Frenchapproach.doc
French OA initiatives at CERN and INSERM national institutes in raising researcher awareness to the importance and benefits of OA. (11) Status report on OA in Germany, Theresa Velden, ZIM in the Max Planck Society
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/velden-germany.ppt
The Berlin Declaration and further OA initiatives at the Max-Planck Institutes. http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html (12) The OA situation in Norway, Jostein Hauge, Bergen University Library
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/hauge-norway.doc
Summary of active and ambitious national institutional self-archiving programme in Norway as well as further OA developments in the other Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Finland, Denmark). (13) (brief presentation) Mark Thorley, NERC, on Research Councils UK position from their submission to the House of Commons Science & Technology (S&T) Committee enquiry into scientific publications Research Council interest in OA (and caution that the UK Parliamentary Committee is merely advisory, not legislative). (14) (brief presentation) Bruce Royan, on evidence from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals to the S&T Committee
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/royan-cilip-evidence.doc
Strong statement supporting OA Provision by The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (15) (brief presentation) Prue Backway, DTI, for report on OECD Declaration On Access To Research Data From Public Funding. Related link: OECD Declaration
http://www.oecd.org/document/0,2340,en_2649_34487_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html
OECD Support for Data-Archiving (and perhaps also Article-Archiving?). (16) From e-Science to Publication@Source, Jeremy Frey and Mike Hursthouse, Southampton University
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/frey-esci.ppt (large file 3.0MB)
Strong case for data self-archiving (chemistry) in the context of the EScience Grid. (17) OA and the Arts and Humanities, Michael Jubb, Arts and Humanities Research Board
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/jubb-ahrb.doc
Suggestion that research monograph is more important in humanities research publication than the research journal, and that OA provision for humanities research articles is less advanced than in science. (18) OA: A funder's perspective, Robert Terry, The Wellcome Trust
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/terry-wellcome.ppt (large file 3.7MB)
The Wellcome Trust's support for Open Access Provision for the outcomes of its funded research. (19) (brief presentation) Peter Murray-Rust, Cambridge University, on authors'/scientists' views
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/murray-rust-data.htm
The importance of access and re-using data in research databases. (20) (brief presentation) Neil Jacobs, Bristol University, on organisations' accountability requirements and ensuring that open archives make these easier to fulfilfil
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/jacobs-howfill.rtf
OA Archives need to be well organised and tagged. (21) A case study of the economic impact of OA on a university, Donald W. King, University of Pittsburgh
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/king-casestudy.ppt
Important data on the relationship between access and usage from a long-time analyst of reading and citing habits of scholars and scientists. Strong support for the "green" road of institutional self-archiving. (22) Publish or perish: Self-archive to flourish, Stevan Harnad, Southampton University [presentation slides]
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/harnad-cycle.ppt
Universities and research funders need to extend the publish-or-perish mandate to now include open-access provision. (23) Outcomes and wrap up Colin Steele and Stevan Harnad Discussion on strategy, implementation and the way forward for Open Access Recommendations from the floor on ways to promote OA self-archiving by institutions and their researchers. Stevan Harnad
Steve Hitchcock IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Email: sh...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3256 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865